Cattle guard



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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CATTLE GUARD.

Application filed August 7, 1928. Serial No. 293,071.

The present invention relates to a cattle guard and has for its prime object to provide a structure for installation on a railroad track so that when cattle step thereon a moving part will scare the cattle off the track.

A still further very important object of the invention resides in the provision of a device of this nature which is exceedingly simple in its construction, inexpensive to manufacture, strong and durable, thoroughly efficient and reliable in use and operation, and otherwise well adapted to the purpose for which it is designed.

\Vith the above and numerous other objects in view as will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in certain novel features of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts as will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of the device embodying my invention showing the same mounted on a railroad track,

Figure 2 is a transverse vertical section therethrough,

Figure 3 is a longitudinal vertical section thereth rough, and

Figure 4; is a view similar to Figure 3 showing the scare rod in a raised position.

Referring to the drawing in detail it will be seen that the numerals 5 denote a plurality of sleepers or ties on which are mounted rails 6 in the usual well known manner.

On one of the ties 5 I mount eye bolts 7 in which is rockable a shaft or rod 8. The frame is denoted generally by the letter F and is of a general elongated rectangular formation including a plurality of spaced parallel coextensive members 9 and a pair of end cross members 10 secured to the members 9.

The shaft or rod 8 passes through intermediate portions of the longitudinal members 9 off center thereof so that one end of the frame is normally down. An eye bolt 11 is anchored in the tie 5 immediately adjacent the normally down end of the frame and has a scare rod 12 pivotally engaged therewith and extending longitudinally over the frame and the extremity thereof has a cross member 14 thereon which rests on the normally raised end of the frame.

By means of this structure it will be seen that whenever an animal steps on the normally raised end of the frame the scare rod 12 will be forced upwardly to the position shown in Figure 4 in such a manner as to scare the animal off the track.

It is obvious that any number of these structures may be used along the track.

it is thought that the construction, operation, utility and advantages of this invention will now be quite apparent to those skilled in this art without a more detailed description thereof.

The present embodiment of the invention has been described in detail merely for the purposes of exemplification since in actual practice it attains the features of advantage enumerated as desirable in the statement of the invention and the above description.

It will be apparentthat changes in the details of construction, and in the combination and arrangement of parts may be resorted to without departing from the spirit or scope of the invention as hereinafter claimed or sacrificing any of its advanta es.

Having thus described my invention, W at I claim as new is:

A structure of the class described including an elongated frame, means for rockably mounting the frame off center so that one end is normally down and the other end up, a scare rod, means for pivotally mounting the scare rod adjacent the normally down end of the frame so that the scare rod extends along the frame and when the raised end of the frame is depressed said rod will fly upwardly, said frame comprising a plurality of Ion tudinal members connected at their ends li y a pair of transverse members, a cross member on the free extremity of the scare rod, means for rockably mounting the frame including a shaft, eye bolts through which the shaft extends, said eye bolts being adapted to be anchored in the tie of a railroad track.-

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

GEORGE LE ROY WYANT. 

